individual Never know he may have started that way and the refugee advocates suggested telling the truth might not be in his best interests.

I firmly believe the decision was not on merit but the same reason Obama got the Nobel peace prize.

Hi Foxy,

I'm sure the forums 'Usual Suspects' will be arranging a book burning night very shortly, where unapproved material such as this can be duly dispatched to the fires.

Don't worry runner, you can bring alone any stray copies of Darwin's blasphemous 'Origin of Species' and chuck them on as well.

Sorry the lads had a book burning last night, I missed that one;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leeBJIZwIbk

Dear Paul,

I came across this as I was cleaning out my study.
It's from ages ago on an article I did on censorship
at uni. I think it's appropriate here:

"Somebody in France wanted to put Voltaire in jail.
Somebody in Franco's Spain sent Lorca, their
greatest poet, to death before a firing squad.
Somebody in Germany under Hitler burned the books,
drove Thomas Mann into exile, and led their Jewish
scholars to the gas chamber. Somebody in Greece long
ago gave Socrates the hemlock to drink. Somebody in
the USSR banned Solzhenitsyn and Pasternak. Somebody
at Golgotha erected a cross and somebody drove the
nails into the hands and feet of Christ.
Somebody spat on his garments.
NO BODY REMEMBERS THEIR NAMES."

Considering that the feminist literary awards excluded Germaine Greer for being insufficiently radical, the question is how political the choices were not if.

Having seen just a small sample of the turgid prose where this economic migrant compares his detention to Auschwitz it would appear that the only merit in this 200 odd page whinge is political.

The only utility to be achieved in buying this book is not in the reading, but in signalling one's virtue in buying it and ensuring that everyone knows or inflicting it on friends.

The saddest thing about Germaine Greer is that
her motivation, once high-minded, is now,
in 2018/2019, obsolete.

As for the author Behrouz Boochani comparing his
book to Auschwitz? No. It was the Sydney Review of
Books that did that and they quoted from several writers.

They explained that:

"One hesitates to invoke Auschwitz in a discussion of
Australia's asylum seeker detention regime, a system
that, for all its horrors, does not implement genocide.
But Behrouz Boochani's "No friend but the mountains" -
a book about, among other things, the power of writing -
does invite the comparison, as a etxt self-consciously
positioned within a broader literature of incarceration."

I rang my favourite bookshop - "Readings" and order copies
of the book. It seems that the book has completely sold
out at ALL of their stores and is now being reprinted.
They will ring and let me know when the books will again
be available. This book has been the number one Bestseller!

Foxy It does pose the question if the information is sensationalized why did you not read it first and either point that out or not put the link here?